Nation: Taiwan: Shock and Fury

An angry mob threw eggs and rocks at the U.S. embassy on Taipei's Chung
Hsiao West Road. Some 2,000 tried to storm an American compound and
were driven back by Marines with tear gas. Near by, students daubed
slogans on white sheets taped to the walls. One message: "We protest
American recognition of the Communist bandits. We will oppose Communism
to the death."

The mood was tense and bitter as Taiwan struggled to come to terms with
America's virtual abandonment of its onetime ally. President Chiang
Ching-kuo, 68, had only a few hours' warning of the move from U.S.
Ambassador Leonard...